An astonishing video captures two police officers engaging in inappropriate behavior beside a patrol car in plain view during the day.
This brazen act was filmed by a local resident in Cyprus, leaving the island’s inhabitants in shock when they viewed the footage.
While traveling through a secluded region on the outskirts of Larnaka, the passerby inadvertently encountered an unbelievable scenario set amidst a farmer’s field.
Their video shows a cop car parked up in full view after ploughing through the crops – clearly in a hurry.
The front passenger door is open and one party is bending over the seat.
The other appears to be going at it hammer-and-tongs behind her.
Vehicles stream past on another road just a stone’s throw away, also with a clear view of the car.
The local force confirmed it was probing a video of “a man and woman”.
Two officers have been identified in relation to the clip and temporarily dismissed from their posts until the inquiry is wrapped up.
The investigation was said to be focused on ascertaining whether the vehicle belonged to the force.
One member of the local police said: “We are not ruling anything out.
“There is a possibility that this is a fake video, footage that has been deliberately manipulated and we are investigating that too.
By Wednesday, however, the clip had been confirmed as legitimate.
Well-placed officials vowed the embarrassing incident would not be allowed to sully “the good name” of the force.
One source told The Sun: “If this video is for real it is deeply offensive but we will not let it get in the way of our good name and good work.”
Social media users had a field day after the video went viral late Tuesday.
Commenters said it had “humiliated” a police force put already under stress from the escalating conflict in the nearby Middle East.
Amid the mockery, police spokesperson Kyriaki Lambrianidou called for sensitivity, as children and families are involved.
The person who filmed could have handed the video over to police rather than post it online for public consumption, she told local media.
Cypriot police responded to a more serious case this week after a British tourist plunged ten metres from a hotel balcony.
The 24-year-old tourist was left fighting for his life when he fell from the platform in the party town Ayia Napa.
The lad was rushed to the Famagusta hospital in Paralimni, but then urgently transferred to Nicosia general hospital – the largest on the island.
Doctors described his condition as “serious”, and cops launched an investigation into the circumstances.
